Several teachers attended a workshop in Saskatoon presented by Rick Wormeli. We came away inspired and want to continue the dialogue. We think we've found the way. Feel free to join the book study of Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing and Grading in a Differentiated Classroom by Rick Wormeli by requesting wiki membership or by contacting JoAnne Kasper at joanne.kasper@lskysd.ca.
Each Friday, a comment will be posted in the Discussion forum (see the toolbar at the top of the page). It will be someone's reaction to the chapter being read that week. Please repsond to the opening post and add your reaction and thoughts to Rick Wormeli's ideas in the book. Feel free to respond to the comments posted, but also to add your own insights and reactions. Volunteer Request We need volunteers to commit to posting the inital response to get the discussion going. I've listed the dates below, If you put your name beside the date, you have volunteered to put up a questions, an argument, an AHA! that came up as a result of your reading the chapter. The inital post should be up by 5:00 p.m. on the Friday.
Chapter
Date
Volunteer
1 - DI
2 - Mastery
Feb. 12
JoAnne Kasper
3 - assessment Principles
Feb. 19 break
Nancy Schultz
4 - 3 Assessment types
Feb. 26
Kathy Chomey
5- Tiering Assessments
March 5
Kim Dyck
6 - Test Questions
March 12
Vicki Orobko
7 - Defining Grades
March 19
Kathy Chomey
8 - Effort, Attendance and Behaviour re. grading
March 26
Sherron Burns
9 - DI assessment and grading
April 2 Good Friday
Cathy Herrick
10- Redoing work
April 9 Easter break
Vicki Orobko
11- Grading Issues
April 16
Lori Rissling
12- Grading Scales
April 23
Darlene Phillips
13- Gradebooks
April 30
Vicki Orobko
14- Report cards
May 7
Vicki Orobko
15- 36 tips
May 14
Vicki Orobko
16- Putting it all togehter
May 21
Vicki Orobko
Look for the first post in the discussion forum on February 12, 2010!
The first ever division-wide Book Club
is about to begin.
Several teachers attended a workshop in Saskatoon presented by Rick Wormeli. We came away inspired and want to continue the dialogue. We think we've found the way. Feel free to join the book study of Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing and Grading in a Differentiated Classroom by Rick Wormeli by requesting wiki membership or by contacting JoAnne Kasper at joanne.kasper@lskysd.ca.
Each Friday, a comment will be posted in the Discussion forum (see the toolbar at the top of the page). It will be someone's reaction to the chapter being read that week. Please repsond to the opening post and add your reaction and thoughts to Rick Wormeli's ideas in the book. Feel free to respond to the comments posted, but also to add your own insights and reactions.
Volunteer Request
We need volunteers to commit to posting the inital response to get the discussion going. I've listed the dates below, If you put your name beside the date, you have volunteered to put up a questions, an argument, an AHA! that came up as a result of your reading the chapter. The inital post should be up by 5:00 p.m. on the Friday.
2 - Mastery
break
Good Friday
Easter break
Look for the first post in the discussion forum on February 12, 2010!